4 months ago

Since Ixalan has brought us
Storm Fleet Arsonist
I thought it would be a nice time to build my Blade of Selves Flicker deck, using these four guys as the core creatures. Problem is...you can't buy the Rishadan pirates anywhere that I'm used to looking.

5 months ago

Well what do you want to do with this deck? If you want to do stax I think you need more cards to support locking your opponents down, things like Winter Orb and probably more control elements, counterspells, removal, board wipes. If you are on a budget then you might consider the old pirates Rishadan Footpad and Rishadan Brigand

But if you want to focus on getting value out if Brago and ETB effects then I'd go with more token producers.

It isn't completely clear which kind of game plan you want to go down. I think for either one you won't to go pretty all in on. There are a few cards that kind of seem like just blue/white goodstuff, which is fine but doesn't really support any particular strategy or synergy with Brago.

As for the mana base it seems fine. 33 Might be slightly low on the land count? I would personally drop Coral Atoll for Azorius Chancery, note that you have to bounce an untapped island for atoll where are chancery is just any land, including a tapped one. I think you could drop a few of the tapped duals for basics if you felt it was slowing you down without impacting your ability to cast things greatly.

Anyway if you tell us a bit more about what you want the deck to do, your game plan, it's easier to offer some advice for recommendations.

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